CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
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1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Car Rental System (CRS) is a web-based system for a company that rents out cars. This system enables the company to make their services available to the public through the internet and also keep records about their services. The world has become a place where there is a lot of technological development, where every single thing did physically has been transformed into a computerized form. Nowadays, people’s activities have been transformed into work done by computerized systems. One of which is the main target of this project which is about Car Rental System. The system of renting cars exist back in the previous years, where people rent cars for their personal reasons. Car renting is essential to many peoples’ plan to travel or move from one place to another for business purposes, tour, and visit or holidays, for these reasons Car renting is very helpful. The starting point of Car renting is really unknown as said by Thomas Pretty, he also mentioned that many beliefs that Joe Saunders was the first man to start a Car renting company. According to Thomas Pretty, charges were calculated with the help of mileage tracking device. Many people became interested in the Car rental business and hence got involved. Car renting became more popular as years pass by. Today Car renting services is found all over the world, especially in developed and developing countries. To make this service more popular and accessible to the public it has been transformed into a web-based system and connected to the internet where everyone can be able to have access to it.